Resigned to the Facts
At least someone is talking about it.
Surpass thirty-two years? They can barely keep the Pontiff alive as it is, and he's only been in office for twenty-six years. Thirty-two plus isn't going to happen.
John Paul II needs to step down from the papacy. The longer he waits to do so, the less legitimacy the office has. Let us not forget, gentle reader, the break dancers.
ROME, Italy (AP) -- A top Vatican official responded to a sensitive question that many Roman Catholics have been asking for a while: Would ailing Pope John Paul II ever consider stepping down?
"Let's leave that hypothesis up to the pope's conscience," said the Holy See's No. 2, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, in answer to a reporter's query Monday.
Sodano expressed hope that John Paul -- hospitalized for a week with flu and breathing troubles -- would surpass Pius IX's 32 years in office, the longest papacy.
Surpass thirty-two years? They can barely keep the Pontiff alive as it is, and he's only been in office for twenty-six years. Thirty-two plus isn't going to happen.
John Paul II needs to step down from the papacy. The longer he waits to do so, the less legitimacy the office has. Let us not forget, gentle reader, the break dancers.
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